Enabling A Firewall Is Easy In Linux DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Thomas
What would make sense would be having a dialog walking you through setting the firewall up when you install the system if you want to do it. If you're installing a server you shouldn't need that of course, you're going to do it manually or with a script you already have built to make it easy. The real deal though is that there are many linux users lately who are just escaping windows and have no interest in what happens under the hood, and their home router is probably protecting them pretty well already. I bet a bucket of Captain Spaulding's fried chicken against your next paycheck that 90% of windows users never touch the windows firewall.
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What would make sense would be having a dialog walking you through setting the firewall up when you install the system if you want to do it. If you're installing a server you shouldn't need that of course, you're going to do it manually or with a script you already have built to make it easy. The real deal though is that there are many linux users lately who are just escaping windows and have no interest in what happens under the hood, and their home router is probably protecting them pretty well already. I bet a bucket of Captain Spaulding's fried chicken against your next paycheck that 90% of windows users never touch the windows firewall.
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Ogemmi
Hello there, i am new to linux. I use manjro kde before but its doesn't live long enough because its always end up breaking for me.
So now i am on pop os, but the pop shop is so buggy, i used it to install app because i am still not familiar with terminal.
Did i need some cleaner for linux? Because pop shop often to hang or freeze when to install app, n i am end up force close it in the middle of the proses. Sorry for bad english
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Hello there, i am new to linux. I use manjro kde before but its doesn't live long enough because its always end up breaking for me.
So now i am on pop os, but the pop shop is so buggy, i used it to install app because i am still not familiar with terminal.
Did i need some cleaner for linux? Because pop shop often to hang or freeze when to install app, n i am end up force close it in the middle of the proses. Sorry for bad english
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Brent
192.168.0.0/24 is a private subnet so being behind the NAT a firewall isn't all that necessary on a desktop. I'm sure the -know it alls- will jump in here on this but it's simple networking. I appreciate the videos DT, don't get me wrong but your average home user won't need a firewall without a public facing DMZ beyond a home router. If one is hosting a server farm then that is a different story.
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192.168.0.0/24 is a private subnet so being behind the NAT a firewall isn't all that necessary on a desktop. I'm sure the -know it alls- will jump in here on this but it's simple networking. I appreciate the videos DT, don't get me wrong but your average home user won't need a firewall without a public facing DMZ beyond a home router. If one is hosting a server farm then that is a different story.
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KnowledgeHarvester
Is firewalls effective against malware/spywares? Let's say there's a malware in my linux and it's spying on my keyboard with keylogger and spying on the files etc, if I turn on the firewall the malware wont be able to operate anymore because the malware needs connection permission to send data in and out and the firewall don't allow unless I allow it.. right?
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Is firewalls effective against malware/spywares? Let's say there's a malware in my linux and it's spying on my keyboard with keylogger and spying on the files etc, if I turn on the firewall the malware wont be able to operate anymore because the malware needs connection permission to send data in and out and the firewall don't allow unless I allow it.. right?
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Paul
Most desktop firewall configs are pointless. Firewalls for incoming traffic are only relevant if there's daemons listening for traffic. And in any case, IPTables only provides minimal protection against real threats, it's almost useless against application level attacks. If you're looking for security, uninstall your web browser instead -
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Most desktop firewall configs are pointless. Firewalls for incoming traffic are only relevant if there's daemons listening for traffic. And in any case, IPTables only provides minimal protection against real threats, it's almost useless against application level attacks. If you're looking for security, uninstall your web browser instead -
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stranded_mariner
UFW is very easy to use, but you admitted yourself that most users don't even enable it because they don't know about it, wouldn't it be easier to explain GUFW for this userbase? If they don't know about a firewall, surely they will struggle with command line?
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UFW is very easy to use, but you admitted yourself that most users don't even enable it because they don't know about it, wouldn't it be easier to explain GUFW for this userbase? If they don't know about a firewall, surely they will struggle with command line?
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Geoff
Is it that important when running behind a router? I confess I don't have it running on my Ubuntu laptop but on some Raspberry Pi machines running 24/7 I set iptables to not allow new connections to local network but allow established or related. Port 22 allowed.
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Is it that important when running behind a router? I confess I don't have it running on my Ubuntu laptop but on some Raspberry Pi machines running 24/7 I set iptables to not allow new connections to local network but allow established or related. Port 22 allowed.
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temudjin1155
I've install ufw and configured it for gtk-transmission. It works very well. As the app is using different ports (you never know which ones), adding the app being treated by ufw lets you downloading without having to shutdown ufw.
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I've install ufw and configured it for gtk-transmission. It works very well. As the app is using different ports (you never know which ones), adding the app being treated by ufw lets you downloading without having to shutdown ufw.
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MostDeviantAsiedu
Also can you suggest a document scanning app simple scan doesnt seem to work for me at all it fails to do the job the scanner at my work place connected to the network though simple scan detects it.
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Also can you suggest a document scanning app simple scan doesnt seem to work for me at all it fails to do the job the scanner at my work place connected to the network though simple scan detects it.
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M.A
Honestly do you really need a firewall?? I guess most home routers already block most ports by default... I find firewalls to be only good maybe if you have a laptop and connect to public wifi's...
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Honestly do you really need a firewall?? I guess most home routers already block most ports by default... I find firewalls to be only good maybe if you have a laptop and connect to public wifi's...
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